E. E. Cummings on Now
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“Life,for eternal us,is now”
“on forever's very now we stand”
“the cunning the craven … they live for until though the sun in his heaven says Now”
“seeming's enough for slaves of space and time —ours is the now and here of freedom. Come”
“—tommorow is our permanent address and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, we'll move away still further:into now”
“dreamtree,truthtree tree of jubilee:with aeons of (trivial merely)existence,all when may not measure a now of your treasure”
“Though you are as honest as the day, fear and hate the liar. Fear and hate him when he should be feared and hated:now. Fear and hate him were he should be feared and hated:in yourselves.”
“more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before— and shining this our now must come to then”
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